Friday, September 30, 2011

Looking up

Did an early moring walk around the Ministry of Public Relations again this morning. Passerine migrants included one Asian Brown Flycatcher, one Yellow-browed Warbler and another poorly seen phyllosc sp. (probably Arctic). I also picked up two Peregrines sparring overhead and calling loudly - they looked fantastic in the early morning sun.

Before starting work a colleague and I went up to our office roof top to look for any evience of vizmig (hoping for some raptor action. We picked up one Crow-billed Drongo, small numbers of Barn Swallows, one or two distant raptors (probably accipiter spp.) and had a flock of 20 Great Cormorants heading due south (GC is a winter visitor to Thailand).

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About Me

Bangkok-based patch-worker in Suan Rot Fai, a large park close to the city's famous weekend market. I have recorded 150 species on my patch since 2008. As one of the only big green spaces in the city, "SRF" acts as a real magnet for migrants during spring and autumn, and holds a healthy selection of "sibes" during the winter months.